That's the outcome of orders from the Supreme Court today, an across-the-board denial of review in seven Guantanamo habeas cases: Latif, Al-Bihani, Uthman, Almerfedi, Al-Kandari, Al-Madhwani, and Al-Alwi...

President Obama, today, on the possibility of leaks from the White House: The notion that the White House would purposely release classified national security information is offensive, it's wrong, and pe...

Writing in the Boston Review, Georgetown professor David Luban has this essay on President Obama's drone war and just war theory, in which aides report the president is steeped: This image of a president...

As both Wells and Ben noted previously, there are renewed signs of interest in the fate of military detention in Afghanistan, in the form of an NPR story by Quil Lawrence and an order that same day from ...

Raff pointed earlier to a USA Today op-ed by Rep. Mac Thornberry (R-Texas), the Vice Chairman of the House Armed Services committee.

I have resisted linking to the latest updates to Bobby, Larkin, and my paper--The Emerging Law of Detention 2.0: The Guantanamo Habeas Cases as Lawmaking--because the redesign of the Brookings web site t...

U.S. District Judge Katherine Forrest has issued this order clarifying the broad scope of the injunction in her earlier opinion striking down Section 1021 of the NDAA. The order does not rule on the gove...

That's the update from the New York Times . . .

According to the New York Times, Al-Qaeda's deputy commander, Abu Yahya al-Libi, was the target of a recent drone attack in Pakistan's tribal belt.  It is unclear whether he survived the attack.

Excellent discussion of drone strikes on today's Diane Rehm Show--which, unfortunately, is not embeddable.

In all the last two days' coverage of the Obama administration's targeting program -- including this lengthy NYT piece, Dan Klaidman's book excerpt, and today's NYT editorial -- there's a remarkable lack...